Machine for loading bound grain on wagons.



PATENTBD MAR. 22 1904.

3. s. KEMPTON. MACHINE FOR LOADING BOUNDGRAIN 0N WAGONS.

APPLICATION TILED-30V. 4, 1901 3 SHEETS-811E311.

PATENTED MAR. 22,1964.

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APPLIOATION FILED ROY. 4, 1901.

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No. 755,138. Patented. March 22, 1904. if

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN S. KEMPTON, OF PATON, IOWA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF PART TO L. A. ROTHE, CHAS. F. LINNAN, AND F. B. KEELER, OF POCAHONTAS-OOUNTY, IOWA, AND D. M. KELLEHER, OF POLK COUNTY, IOWA.

MACHINE FOR LOADING BOUND GRAIN ON WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,138, dated March 22, 1904.

Application filed November 4, 1901. Serial No. 81,154. (No model.)

To all whm it y concern! Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a fragmen- Be it known that I, BENJAMIN S. KEMIPTON, tary section taken through the rear portion acitizen oftheUnited States,residingatPaton, of the frame looking toward the front, and in the county of Green and'State of Iowa, have in this View the reels are not present; and Fig. 50 5 invented a new and useful Machine for Load- 4 is a detail view of one of the endless carriers ing Bound Grain on Wagons, of which the foland a part of the driving mechanism therefor. lowing is a specification. The body or frame of the machine may be of This invention appertains to improvements any suitable construction and material and is in harvesters, more particularly to that class open at the front end, which is supported by 55 of harvesting-machines which-are designed for caster wheels 50, attached to the lower sillloading cut grain, hay, or stalks, either bound pieces of the frameat their forward ends. The in bundles or sheaves or when loose, as in cocks upper side bars of the frame are connected or windrows, from the ground to carriers, by by an arch 11 of sufficient height to admit a means of which the hay or other produce is sheaf or bundle of grain beneath such arch. 60 5 raised to such an elevation that it may be dis- The upper parallel bars of the frame 10 are concharged or loaded in a wagon in attendance nected by transverse beams or bars,and the sillupon the machine. pieces have a floor 4.9, which extends forward The objects of my improvement are, first, of the supporting-wheels 15. A rearwardlyto provide reels which are maintained to operprojecting tongue 12 is attached to the rear 5 ate and gather the hay or other produce from lower portion of the frame, the draft-animals the ground and deposit the same upon a being hitched to the tongue to move the macarrier; second, to provide means for taking chine forward in advance of such animals. The the material which is gathered and lifted by parallel side bars of the frame near their cen the reels from the arms thereof, so that the ters have uprights or connecting-bars 14 14, 7 5 rotation of the reels will not be impeded by which carry journalboxes or bearings,through the material which is lifted to the carrier by which passes arotary axle 13, to whichis rigthe reels; third, to provide elevating mechanidly secured the supporting or traction wheels ism which will cooperate with the reels when 15 15. Below the journal-boxes for the axle positioned to accomplish the ends in view, and, 13 are boxes or bearings for a shaft 16. To 75 3 further, to provide a machine of improved the rear uprights of the frame and to the upconstruction for gathering crops from fields rights or bars 14 there are secured bars, which after the crops have been cut and cured, so as are maintained parallel with the upper and to expeditiously load the same on wagons. lower bars of the frame, and upon the same are 5 The machine herein shown embodies one bearings for atransverse shaft and for out- 80 type of my invention, there being illustrated wardlyprojecting stub-shafts, to which are a hay-loader of the side-delivery type having rigidly attached gear and sprocket wheels 37 inclined carriers and reels made and arranged and 35. To the forward portion of the lower in accord with my invention; and the invenbars of the frame are journal-boxes for a shaft tion consists in the construction, arrangement, 26,bearings also being provided for stub-shafts 5 4 and combination of the parts to accomplish which carry beveled gears and sprocketthe ends in view, as will be hereinafter set wheels 22, the beveled gears meshing with forth, and particularly pointed out in the similar gears on inclined reel-carrying shafts claims. 16 16, which are journaled in brackets which In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is project outward from the upper and lower 9 a top plan view of the major portion of a mabars of the frame. From the sill-pieces of chine for loading hay, grain, &c., on wagons. the frame, so as to be parallel or approximately parallel with the shafts 16, are brackets or bearings which carry shafts or supports for sprocket-wheels 39, which are attached to the upper ends of said shafts. The upper bars of the frame rear of the uprights 14 carry hangers 42, through which pass inclined shafts having at their upper ends sprocket-wheels 40 and at their lower ends miter-gears 43, which mesh with miter-gears which are keyed upon the shaft 25, which constitutes the upper shaft of an endless carrier, said shaft having keyed thereon sprocketwheels 27, over which pass chains 29, to which are attached slats 30, having projecting pins. The chains 29 pass over sprocket-wheels 27 and 28, which are rigidly attached to the shafts 25 and 26. Upon the shaft 26 between the sprocket-wheels 28 there are rigidly attached sprocket-wheels 31, similar sprocket-wheels being mounted in line therewith on the shaft 25, such sprocket-wheels being mounted loosely on the driven shaft 25. The chains 32 are provided with fingers 33, which are spaced at the same distance apart as the slats 30, and it will be noted that by the construction shown the fingers of the chains 32 operate between the slats, and as the grain is moved upward they pass below the plane of the upper slatted carrier-belt and at the upper end of the belt are entirely within the same and out of engagement with the grain carried by the carrier, which passes over the larger sprocketwheel 27.

By the construction illustrated I provide practically two carrier-belts, which act in conjunction with each other where the grain is received thereon, and as the grain is raised and reaches the point for delivery the fingers of one of the carrier-belts are automatically and positively moved out of contact with the grain to insure certain discharge from the carrier.

The main carrier-belt is of considerably less width than the distance between the longitudinal bars of the frame,and there are mounted, so as to operate in close proximity vertically and at a slight distance above the carrier-belt, chains 41, which engage the sprocket-wheels 39 and 40, said chains having fingers which project over the outer side chains of the slatted endless carrier. These side belts or carriers extend forward considerably beyond the path of the arms of the reels and are below the line of travel of said arms. They also move at a higher ratio of speed than the carrier-belts and reels, so that they will quickly engage and move any hay, straw, or stalks from the arms of the reels, and by taking it therefrom the rotation of the arms or reels will not be impeded.

The axle of the traction wheels carries sprocket-wheels 34, over which pass chains which also engage and drive smaller sprocketwheels 35 on the stub shafts, which stubshafts also carry gear-wheels 37 which mesh with gear-wheels 38 on the shaft 25, which shaft drives the horizontal and the verticallydisposed carrier-belts.

On the axle 13 is a gear-wheel 47, which meshes with a gear-wheel 48 on the shaft 46, said shaft having a miter-gear 47 which meshes with asimilar miter-gear 47 on a shaft 45, which shaft drives an endless carrier disposed at right angles to the carriers hereinbefore described. This endless carrier operates over' a frarne'which is supported at its lower end by the shaft 45, the side pieces of the frame which support the upper roller being suitably attached to the frame of the machine.

The frame 10 is provided with Sideboards, and one of the boards terminates above the lower end of the endless carrier 455, so that should any hay or grain fall from the first carrier on the inclined board it would be taken therefrom. upon the floor, where it is retained.

The reels are driven by sprocket-chains 23 23, which pass over sprocket-wheels 21 on the axle 13, and the chains 23 also engage sprockets 22. The miter-gears meshing with the gears 24 turn the shaft 16 at a comparatively high rate of speedthat is, much faster than the forward travel of the machine or the carrier 30.

Upon the forwardly-inclined shafts 16,.

reels are acting to lift the hay or grain. In

operation the reels turn toward each other, the arms of one reel passing between the arms of the other reel, and said arms move in planes which areinclined to the horizontal, so that in This board also directs any seed,

operation the ends of the arms as the reels are rotated will move toward the surface of the ground, engage the hay or grain thereon, lift the same, and place it upon the endless carrier, and if sheaves or cocks are to be gathered they will be lifted and inclined slightly forward with the heads toward the rear end of the machine as they are placed on the first carrier.

It will be noted that the radial arms of the reel are in parallel planes and that from their outer ends beyond the side frames of the machine they commence a downward movement which will gather in the grain, and as the arms pass rearward they rise to lift what is gathered thereby and place it on the carrierbelt, and if any of the grain adheres it will be drawn off the arms by the quick-moving belts or carriers 41. The disks 20 can be adthe particular form of gearing, or to a pole attached at the rear of the machine, and

Having thus described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a sheaf gatherer and loader, a frame, supporting-wheels therefor, a pair of reels which both gather and lift, bearings attached to the frame to maintain the shafts of the reels in a position whereby the radiating arms carried by the shafts travel in intersecting paths which are upward and rearward over the forward portion of the frame.

2. In a machine of the kind described, an inclined conveyer, clearing-bands maintained at a higher plane than the conveyer and actuated at a faster rate of travel than the conveyer, gathering and lifting reels having radial arms, the shafts of the reels being maintained so that the arms thereof will move in forward and downward inclined orbits and over the forward portions of the conveyer and clearing-bands.

3. In a machine for the purpose set forth, the combination with an inclined conveyer, of gathering and lifting reels maintained so that the shafts of the reels will be inclined forward with respect to the frame, the upper ends of the shafts from which project the arms of the reels being in advance of the lower ends.

4. In a machine for gathering shocks or sheaves, a frame, an inclined conveyer mounted between the side bars of the frame, and a pair of rotatable reels having radial arms, the shafts of the reels being maintained .so the upper ends will be forward of the lower ends, the arms of the reels moving in forward anddownward inclined orbits with 6. In a machine for the purpose set forth,

a frame, a conveyer between the side bars of the frame, and a pair of coacting reels, the shafts of the reels being connected to the forward portion of the frame and maintained so the upper ends of the shafts will be forward of the lower ends; or forwardly inclined with respect to the line of travel of the machine; and an upper and a lower set of arms on each shaft which project at right angles from the forwardly-inclined shafts, substantially as,

gitudinal center of the carrier.

8. In a machine for the purpo e set forth, the combination with aframe, an e dless carrier, a pair of reels mounted on the-frame in advance of and on opposite sides of the carrier, the reels comprising shafts which are maintained at a forward and upward inclination with respect to the frame and direction of travel of the machine, two sets of radial arms attached to each shaft, the arms on one shaft being opposite to those on the other shaft and arranged so that the arms on one shaft will enter the interstices between the arms of the opposite shaft, substantially as shown.

9. In a machine for the purpose set forth, the combination with inclined endless conveyers maintained at right angles one to the other and one in advance of the other, of endless belts with projecting fingers operatively supported at a higher elevation than the front part of the forward elevator and having a higher rate of travel than said elevator, and gathering and lifting reels supported to operate in front and above the forward portions of the first elevator and the endless belts, substantially as shown.

10. Ina device of the class described, the combination with a frame, of two shafts rotatably attached at the front end of said frame and extending forwardly and upwardly thereing arms on each shaft, for the purpose set forth.

BENJAMIN S. KEMPTON.

Witnesses:

J. W. HUNTINGTON, CHAS. HALEY. 

